User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Mon APR 18, 2011 Boston PHP Meetup, "Zend: Do You Queue? and Best practices for PHP deployment", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapters 19-20; Silverlight 4 unleashed", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NE SiteCore Meetup, "Dreamcore Kickoff Tweetup", 7PM, Minibar, 51 Huntington Ave Boston Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, SCVNGR Inc, Cambridge NH Ruby Users Group, "refactored ClientSideValidations & Capybara for integration testing", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth Tue APR 19, 2011 NH Sys Eng & Admin Tech (SEA-TUG), "Security topics", 6PM, Hilton Garden, Portsmouth NH Manchester Linux Users, "Lightning talks", 6:30, Wings Your Way, Manchester NH Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at SVCNGR", 7PM, Cambridge Django Boston Meetup, "Haystack Search", 7PM, CustomMade Ventures, Cambridge Wed APR 20, 2011 Boston Arduino Meetup Group, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge New Hampshire .Net Seacoast, "First meeting: Windows 7 Phone applications", 6PM, Global Relief, Portsmouth, NH NH .NET Users, "ASP.NET MVC 3 Overview", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NE ASP.NET Professionals, "Agile Development", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Linux & Unix, "Short Takes: Nagios, GNOME 3, and Genesi's Efika MX Smarttop", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 395 Google Technology Users, "Google Apps Scripting", 6:30, @Google, Cambridge Windows Phone User Developer, "Phone 7 Update & Lifecycle and Data Persistence Strategies", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, "Monthly Meetup", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston Southern New England Network, "Walter Horowitz: IPV-6", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI Thu APR 21, 2011 Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, "Rails Authentication", 7PM, Cantina's, Newton Center Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston North Shore Web Geeks, "SASS (Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets)", 7PM, The Port Tavern, Newburyport Boston Digital Arts Meetup, "Together festival", 8PM, Milky Way Lounge, Jamaica Plain Sat APR 23, 2011 Boston Drupal, "workshop: internal workings of the VoIP Drupal platform", 1-3 pm, MIT Media Lab Mon APR 25, 2011 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapters 21-22; Silverlight 4 unleashed", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston WordPress Meetup Group, "Dev/Design, Site Critiques", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue APR 26, 2011 SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network) "Add Steak to Exploratory Testing's Parlor-Trick Sizzle", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford Refresh Boston, "The Chimera: Current trends in Web-based UIs", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NH Java Users, "Test Driven Development (TDD)", 6:30, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 Wed APR 27, 2011 DAMA Intl, "Applying Knowledge to Meta and Master Data Management", 8:15AM, Bentley Univ, Waltham IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Monthly Meetup", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge Agile Boston, "What is Agile Project Management?", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston CiviCRM Meetup, 6:30, Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave, Boston Boston InDesign User Group, "Networking Night", 6:30, Cityside Bar & Grille, Brighton Boston PHP Meetup, "Web Performance, Scalability, and Testing techniques", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu APR 28, 2011 SEMPO Boston Working Group, "Using the Internet to Expand Business", 7:45AM, Location TBA Boston Azure Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Lean Startup Circle, "How to recruit and interview potential customers", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge UX Boston Book Club, "Christopher Alexander: The Timeless Way of Building", 7-9PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge App Development Meetup, "General Meetup", 7PM, Au Bon Pain, 431 Boylston St jQuery Boston Meetup, "SproutCore for jQuery Developers", 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St GBC/ACM & IEEE Computer Society, "Network Science: From the Web to the Cell", 7PM, MIT Broad Institute Auditorium Fri APR 29, 2011 App Development Meetup, $ "Getting started with iPhone App Development for Beginners", 6PM, Courtyard South Boston $ Mon MAY 02, 2011 NE F# User Group, "Numbers, Functions and Computation Expressions", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Java Meetup, "Visualizing java.util.concurrent", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "Knight-Mozilla News Innovation Meetup", 7PM, MIT Media Lab Tue MAY 03, 2011 Boston Unity Group, "Unity demo showcase", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston Wed MAY 04, 2011 OWASP Boston Chapter, "Secure Application design and Coding", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, The Lyceum, Salem Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Boston iPad Developers Meetup Group, "Share your iPad / HD Apps", 7PM, Bertucci's, Cambridge Thu MAY 05, 2011 Beantown .NET Users, "Too Slow: Performance Profiling, Testing & Fixing with VS2010", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Agile New England, "Agile Program Management: Is Large Agile an Oxymoron?", 6PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham Fri MAY 06, 2011 Merrimack Valley Section ASQ, "50th Anniversary Celebration", 6PM, Meadow Creek Club, Dracut Mon MAY 09, 2011 Mobile Monday Boston, "Mobile Startups Showcase at MIT Museum", 6:30, MIT Building N51 Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Tue MAY 10, 2011 Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Currently setting up the agenda", 6PM, MIT Stata Center Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting - TBA", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Jboss Users Group, "Java and Postgres", 6PM, Boston University New England M Users' Group, "Devcon Recap", 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley BostonCHI, "From Natural Gesture to Game UI", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Rubyists, "Main Event", 7PM, Sermo, Cambridge Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 Flash Platform Users/Flex Users, "Christophe Coenraets on Flash Builder & Flex 4.5", 7PM, Adobe, Waltham Wed MAY 11, 2011 NE Open Text Users, "RightFax 10.0 revealed", 4PM, One Broadway, Cambridge Software Quality Group of NE, "Career Paths for Software QA Staff", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Boston .NET Users, "Parallelism and Performance with PLINQ and C#/.NET 4.0", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham NH Joomla Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Manchester School of Technology Thu MAY 12, 2011 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence NE Java Users Group, "What Functional Purists don't want you to know about Scala", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington NE SQL Server Users Group, "topic tbd", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston Boston CocoaHeads, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376 Sat MAY 14, 2011 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "details will be announced at the beginning of May", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134 Mon MAY 16, 2011 Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, SCVNGR Inc, Cambridge NH Ruby Users Group, "Regular Meeting", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH Tue MAY 17, 2011 Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at SCVNGR", 7PM, 175 Second Street, Cambridge Boston New Technology Meetup Group, topic TBD, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed MAY 18, 2011 Boston Arduino Meetup Group, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Linux & Unix, "Miguel de Icaza: Details to follow", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 395 Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, "topic tbd", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston Boston Python Meetup, "two scientists sharing their work in Python", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Southern New England Network, "Integrating Windows AD and Linux with Likewise", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI Thu MAY 19, 2011 Lean Startup Circle, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "Data visualizations: Using data to explain the world around us", 7PM, Boston Globe Mon MAY 23, 2011 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Wed MAY 25, 2011 IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Monthly Meetup", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge Thu MAY 26, 2011 Boston Azure Users, "PowerShell + Azure", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mon MAY 30, 2011 Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston Wed JUN 01, 2011 Exchange Server Boston, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, The Lyceum, Salem Boston iPad Developers Meetup Group, "Share your iPad / HD Apps", 7PM, Bertucci's, Cambridge Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Thu JUN 02, 2011 Beantown .NET Users, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge DAMA International, "Agile and Pervasive BI: Oxymoron or Emerging Trend?", location TBD Sat JUN 04, 2011 Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XL", 9-5, MIT Building E51, Room 061 Tue JUN 07, 2011 Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston Wed JUN 08, 2011 Software Quality Group of NE, "Maximizing the Value of Testing to the Business", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Boston PHP Meetup, "Introducing the Lithium PHP Framework", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu JUN 09, 2011 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence NE Java Users Group, "Special Members Meeting", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington NE SQL Server Users Group, "Disk I/O Tuning - Kevin Kline", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Sat JUN 11, 2011 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Mon JUN 13, 2011 Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, SCVNGR Inc, Cambridge Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Tue JUN 14, 2011 Boston Jboss Users Group, "Fedora", 6-9 pm, Boston University Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Currently setting up the agenda", 6PM, MIT Stata Center BostonCHI, "Speaker: Matt Boch, Harmonix Music", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Rubyists, "Main Event", 7PM, Sermo, Cambridge Wed JUN 15, 2011 Boston Area SAS Users Group, topic TBD, 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Linux & Unix, "Joseph Guarino: Free and Open-Source Software", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335 Southern New England Network, "SharePoint 2010", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI Boston Arduino Meetup Group, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, "topic tbd", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston Mon JUN 20, 2011 NH Ruby Users Group, "Regular Meeting", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH Wed JUN 22, 2011 IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Monthly Meetup", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge Thu JUN 23, 2011 Lean Startup Circle, "TBA", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mon JUN 27, 2011 Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston Thu JUN 30, 2011 Lean Startup Circle, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mon JUL 11, 2011 Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, SCVNGR Inc, Cambridge Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Tue JUL 12, 2011 Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Currently setting up the agenda", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed JUL 13, 2011 Software Quality Group of NE, "Annual Hot Topics Night", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Boston PHP Meetup, "Learn SEO (Search Engine Optimization)", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mon JUL 18, 2011 NH Ruby Users Group, "Regular Meeting", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH Wed JUL 20, 2011 Boston Linux & Unix, "Open Source Hardware Platforms", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335 Wed JUL 27, 2011 DataCAD Users (DBUG), 6PM, topic and location TBD Wed AUG 17, 2011 Boston Linux & Unix, "TBD", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335 Wed SEP 28, 2011 DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Boston Society of Architects Wed OCT 26, 2011 DataCAD Users (DBUG), 6PM, topic and location TBD Thu NOV 17, 2011 DataCAD Users (DBUG), "BSA's Build Boston", 6PM, World Trade Center
Events, Conferences, Education and Training: APR 29, 2011 Drupaltherapy Training, "intensive workshop: fresh Drupal skills for new and novice users", 9-5, CompuWorks, Boston APR 29- MAY 01, 2011 New England Give Camp, "Planning is underway", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge MAY 03, 2011 Oracle BPM Suite Seminar, Westin Hotel, Waltham MAY 07, 2011 New England Code Camp 15, "full day of knowledge sharing and networking", Microsoft Waltham MAY 10-11, 2011 Google I/O 2011 Extended, HubSpot, Cambridge MAY 16, 2011 Azure Deep Dive with Jeffrey Richter, "how to leverage Azure’s data storage and compute services", Microsoft Waltham MAY 25, 2011 Boston Mini UPA conference, "Usability and User Experience 2011", Cambridge Hyatt JUN 01-03, 2011 SharePoint Technology Conference, "90+ classes and workshops", Sheraton Boston JUN 03-05, 2011 iPhone Boot Camp Boston, "3 Day Intensive Workshop", 10-6, WorkBar Boston JUN 07, 2011 IT Roadmap Conference & Expo, Hynes Convention Center JUN 13-16, 2011 TechConnect World 2011, Hynes Convention Center SEP 26-29, 2011 Embedded Systems Conference, Hynes Convention Center Ongoing: MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science events open to the public The IEEE Boston Section posts local courses at http://www.ieeeboston.org/ South End Technology Center @ Tent City Course list Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 617 547-6789 or http://www.ccae.org DevelopMentor Training Classes, http://www.develop.com Future Media Concepts provides training in all areas of digital media Boston SQL Training Apple seminars Microsoft New England: Local Event Calendar Boston TechVenue Calendar Boston Events List for Professionals IBM Innovation Centers for Business Partners - Waltham
These listings are obtained from user group web pages, mailings, and from other sources.